Toxicity in Everyday Products

A.) I found more PBDEs in the meeting house. I think I found more In the meeting house because the furniture in there is much older than what’s in my room.

B.) The products I found that contained the most PBDEs were chairs. Most of the chairs in the meeting house had PBDEs including a rolling chair.

C.) the product I believe that gets the most use is chairs. The chairs in the meeting house get an especially high amount of use  

D.) I believe that the product the is the highest health risk is chairs. I feel this way because of how much time we spend in chairs. The chronic exposure from sitting in chairs would be great.

E.) I personally believe that the only way to address concerns over PBDEs is to find a way to make furniture flame retardant as well as non-toxic. We would have to devolve a new method for creating furniture or we could find a way to make retardants safe.

F.) After doing this activity and watching the movie I realized that PBDEs are inevitably going to be apart of someone’s life. I learned that we are all getting exposed to these chemicals on a daily basis. What I want to know is whether or not it is possible to make fire safe furniture without using flame retardants